KnowraWalter BenjaminLinked fromLinked fromThe 30 pages that link to Walter Benjamin, each with the reason it gives.All 30Related 28Compared with 2TranslationRelated: His argument treats translation as more than the transfer of information.Theodor W. AdornoRelated: Adorno’s friendship with Benjamin included sustained intellectual exchange and disagreement.Andy WarholRelated: His account of reproduction offers a framework for considering Warhol's serial images and art objects.Frankfurt SchoolRelated: His work was closely associated with the Institute’s circle and its cultural criticism.Charles BaudelaireRelated: Benjamin made Baudelaire central to his analysis of nineteenth-century Paris and the commodity culture of modernity.Marxist literary criticismRelated: His work connects literary interpretation to technology, political struggle, and cultural memory.Culture industryCompared with: Benjamin saw possibilities for political transformation in mechanical reproduction that Adorno treated more pessimistically.Philosophy of historyRelated: His critique offers a sharply different vision of historical time and progress.Susan SontagRelated: His writing on mechanical reproduction and photography shaped the intellectual terrain Sontag addressed.KitschRelated: His writings on reproduction and mass culture help frame the conditions in which kitsch circulated.Max HorkheimerRelated: His intellectual exchange with Horkheimer connected the Institute to a distinctive philosophy of history.Poetry translationRelated: His account challenges the idea that a translation’s sole purpose is to convey information.Charles FourierRelated: Benjamin treated Fourier’s phalansteries as a revealing image of nineteenth-century hopes for transformed life.Paul KleeRelated: Benjamin’s reading of Angelus Novus gave Klee’s image a major afterlife in political thought.Art reproductionRelated: His writing remains a key framework for understanding reproduction’s cultural effects.Cultural criticismRelated: His account of mechanical reproduction transformed criticism of art and mass media.Tony KushnerRelated: Benjamin’s ideas and historical presence resonate with Kushner’s interest in memory and political catastrophe.Aesthetic TheoryRelated: His debates with Adorno shaped their differing accounts of art and historical change.Campbell's Soup CansRelated: His account of mechanical reproduction offers a framework for the work’s repeated commodity image.Friedrich HölderlinRelated: Benjamin’s essay on Hölderlin’s early poetry offers a major critical interpretation of his work.John BergerRelated: Benjamin’s account of mechanical reproduction illuminates Berger’s interest in images’ changing contexts.FlâneurRelated: His unfinished Arcades Project made the flâneur central to interpreting nineteenth-century Paris.NovalisRelated: Benjamin’s early scholarship interpreted Novalis and the theory of Romantic criticism.Elmyr de HoryRelated: De Hory’s copied styles raise questions about originality and the authority of an artwork’s provenance.Byung-Chul HanRelated: Benjamin’s criticism of modern experience provides a precedent for Han’s cultural diagnosis.Ebrahim HusseinRelated: Benjamin’s ideas about history and allegory offer one critical route into Hussein’s dramatic forms.Friedrich GundolfCompared with: Benjamin’s criticism offers a sharply different model from Gundolf’s unified portraits of authors.Giorgio AgambenRelated: Benjamin’s account of law-making and law-preserving violence shapes Agamben’s critique of legal order.Johann Peter HebelRelated: Benjamin praised Hebel’s storytelling as a model of narrative clarity and worldly wisdom.Reproduction (art and printing)Related: Benjamin examined how mechanical copying changes art's authority and social presence.
KnowraWalter BenjaminLinked fromLinked fromThe 30 pages that link to Walter Benjamin, each with the reason it gives.All 30Related 28Compared with 2TranslationRelated: His argument treats translation as more than the transfer of information.Theodor W. AdornoRelated: Adorno’s friendship with Benjamin included sustained intellectual exchange and disagreement.Andy WarholRelated: His account of reproduction offers a framework for considering Warhol's serial images and art objects.Frankfurt SchoolRelated: His work was closely associated with the Institute’s circle and its cultural criticism.Charles BaudelaireRelated: Benjamin made Baudelaire central to his analysis of nineteenth-century Paris and the commodity culture of modernity.Marxist literary criticismRelated: His work connects literary interpretation to technology, political struggle, and cultural memory.Culture industryCompared with: Benjamin saw possibilities for political transformation in mechanical reproduction that Adorno treated more pessimistically.Philosophy of historyRelated: His critique offers a sharply different vision of historical time and progress.Susan SontagRelated: His writing on mechanical reproduction and photography shaped the intellectual terrain Sontag addressed.KitschRelated: His writings on reproduction and mass culture help frame the conditions in which kitsch circulated.Max HorkheimerRelated: His intellectual exchange with Horkheimer connected the Institute to a distinctive philosophy of history.Poetry translationRelated: His account challenges the idea that a translation’s sole purpose is to convey information.Charles FourierRelated: Benjamin treated Fourier’s phalansteries as a revealing image of nineteenth-century hopes for transformed life.Paul KleeRelated: Benjamin’s reading of Angelus Novus gave Klee’s image a major afterlife in political thought.Art reproductionRelated: His writing remains a key framework for understanding reproduction’s cultural effects.Cultural criticismRelated: His account of mechanical reproduction transformed criticism of art and mass media.Tony KushnerRelated: Benjamin’s ideas and historical presence resonate with Kushner’s interest in memory and political catastrophe.Aesthetic TheoryRelated: His debates with Adorno shaped their differing accounts of art and historical change.Campbell's Soup CansRelated: His account of mechanical reproduction offers a framework for the work’s repeated commodity image.Friedrich HölderlinRelated: Benjamin’s essay on Hölderlin’s early poetry offers a major critical interpretation of his work.John BergerRelated: Benjamin’s account of mechanical reproduction illuminates Berger’s interest in images’ changing contexts.FlâneurRelated: His unfinished Arcades Project made the flâneur central to interpreting nineteenth-century Paris.NovalisRelated: Benjamin’s early scholarship interpreted Novalis and the theory of Romantic criticism.Elmyr de HoryRelated: De Hory’s copied styles raise questions about originality and the authority of an artwork’s provenance.Byung-Chul HanRelated: Benjamin’s criticism of modern experience provides a precedent for Han’s cultural diagnosis.Ebrahim HusseinRelated: Benjamin’s ideas about history and allegory offer one critical route into Hussein’s dramatic forms.Friedrich GundolfCompared with: Benjamin’s criticism offers a sharply different model from Gundolf’s unified portraits of authors.Giorgio AgambenRelated: Benjamin’s account of law-making and law-preserving violence shapes Agamben’s critique of legal order.Johann Peter HebelRelated: Benjamin praised Hebel’s storytelling as a model of narrative clarity and worldly wisdom.Reproduction (art and printing)Related: Benjamin examined how mechanical copying changes art's authority and social presence.